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old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:17 pm
On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
Anyone want to take a wild guess as to who was running the Secret Service in October of 2018?
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:51 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:51 pm :lol: ...as always, in your world, everything is D vs R.
As always, you have it backward.





Can we watch Hillaryous Clinton, again, and her very funny Saturday Night live "skit" about "same sex marriage"....and she should have been for it ......

sooner.....

again.


so funny.

But, yeah........some loser at the FBI was the reason why she got way more votes that tRump....way more.

She, will always reming you/us....that she got way more votes than Don. Got. way more.

Oh...and, Hillary also, and always, states, that Don IS an illegimate potusa......always.

But, yeah.......homosexuals LOVE the Clintons.......always have.

Now, where is my private prison proxy...gotta vote in the new warden at Clinton INC. private for prisons......unreal...

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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:56 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:17 pm
On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
Anyone want to take a wild guess as to who was running the Secret Service in October of 2018?
Fbi agent Strozks ?

OR, did he land a "gig" at some "gun for hire" place, like maybe running security details for Bill gates, or maybe, Bloomberg.

guns for me and my protection.......not yours.

your love for druggies is strange, afan.

you sure are a centrist... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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runrussellrun wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:59 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:56 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:17 pm
On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
Anyone want to take a wild guess as to who was running the Secret Service in October of 2018?
Fbi agent Strozks ?

OR, did he land a "gig" at some "gun for hire" place, like maybe running security details for Bill gates, or maybe, Bloomberg.

guns for me and my protection.......not yours.

your love for druggies is strange, afan.

you sure are a centrist... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
The left man on the field is out of the trenches, man.

Liza Minelli?

why you keep eating chocolate covered I beams......?

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According to POLITICO's Betsy Woodruff Swan on MSNBC today :

It's a big mess for DoJ. The DoJ prosecutors signed the agreement before the hearing began. ...what exactly did DoJ sign on to ? The copy of the contract we (POLITICO) obtained shows that David Weiss, Hunter Biden & Chris Clark all signed that contract on July 26. ...just how broad was DoJ's promise in that contract not to bring future charges against Hunter Biden ? ...Hunter's lawyers could argue, & the document shows, that the DoJ is promising not to bring charges related to those companies (Burisma, CEFC & Owasco PC). It's pretty clear that DoJ signed on to something much broader than what they said in court. ...yesterday will be seen as the DoJ stepping on a rake. ...the language in the contract itself is very clear. DoJ promised broad immunity, but did not get the expected guilty plea.

The Trump appointed MAGA Prosecutor from DE was willing to give Hunter a pass of further investigating all the foreign money he earned, laundered & failed to pay taxes on, in return for a guilty plea on a gun charge, which will be diverted & expunged in 2 years.
What a great win for Team MAGA ! :roll:
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:56 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:17 pm
On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
Anyone want to take a wild guess as to who was running the Secret Service in October of 2018?
:roll: So what ? Biden still had contacts from his SS detail & the SS refused to comment on the report.
Do you think a new Pres fires the entire Fed govt & brings in their people ?
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:01 pm
runrussellrun wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:59 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:56 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:17 pm
On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
Anyone want to take a wild guess as to who was running the Secret Service in October of 2018?
Fbi agent Strozks ?

OR, did he land a "gig" at some "gun for hire" place, like maybe running security details for Bill gates, or maybe, Bloomberg.

guns for me and my protection.......not yours.

your love for druggies is strange, afan.

you sure are a centrist... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
The left man on the field is out of the trenches, man.

Liza Minelli?

why you keep eating chocolate covered I beams......?

dog muzzle
Your lifes work.........\
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ethanol.

More clown show. Covid vaccines work. My doctors said so.

so, why did your children get sick with covid

because of i beams covered in chocolate.

Keep on supporting Hunter...........he doesn't imbide in your lifes work. Anylonger.

booze......so noble. At least, one doesn't need a "prescription" for booze.

were booze store "essential" during the covid lockdowns :lol: :lol: :lol:
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:51 pm In MY world? Comey and allllll the rest of the FBI, IRS, and DoJ did their jobs just fine over the last decade. Were they perfect? F no. They weren't perfect. But they did their best. That's how MY world operates, OS. No D's. No R's. No Deep State. Just people , doing their jobs.

In YOUR WORLD, the entire FBI, DoJ, and IRS is out to get Republicans. That is YOUR theory, and worldview, NOT mine. And you simply don't have any evidence that fits this view.

And it's why we keep saying absurd this worldview is by pointing out: why the F would registered Republicans and Republican appointees like Comey and Mueller and Wray and Rettig go after the Republican party ONLY, and protect Hunter and Joe Biden and other Dems? It makes ZERO sense.

The rest of us? We just think they're doing their jobs, and that's the end of it. It's why no one here is whining about wasting 5 years to go after Hunter for some boilerplate IRS tax evasion. More power to the IRS.

And again.......I'm ready to walk from this round and round when you are, so.... don't come back and tell me I'm pestering you.
Again. I've said the problem is the few who can't put their politicial biases aside & do their job, like the Dem IRS Agent whistleblower did his.

Comey clearly overstepped the boundaries of his job & screwed over both candidates & the subsequent President.
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old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:07 pm :roll: So what ? Biden still had contacts from his SS detail & the SS refused to comment on the report.
Do you think a new Pres fires the entire Fed govt & brings in their people ?
No.

As I keep saying, what I think is that it's unlikely that the SS broke laws until I see actual evidence instead of claims made on the internet three years after the supposed incident happened.

What's your iron-clad explanation as to why these witnesses waited THREE YEARS...... until Trump left office, before making these allegations?
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:18 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:07 pm :roll: So what ? Biden still had contacts from his SS detail & the SS refused to comment on the report.
Do you think a new Pres fires the entire Fed govt & brings in their people ?
No.

As I keep saying, what I think is that it's unlikely that the SS broke laws until I see actual evidence instead of claims made on the internet three years after the supposed incident happened.

What's your iron-clad explanation as to why these witnesses waited THREE YEARS...... until Trump left office, before making these allegations?
Who says the SS broke laws ? They may have also been trying to track down the gun & get it off the street or prevent Hunter from offing himself.
I have no beef with the SS. The article I posted details all the govt agencies who scrambled to recover the gun.
Local police, DE State police, SS, ATF, FBI -- all scrambled to find Hunter's gun.
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old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:16 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:51 pm In MY world? Comey and allllll the rest of the FBI, IRS, and DoJ did their jobs just fine over the last decade. Were they perfect? F no. They weren't perfect. But they did their best. That's how MY world operates, OS. No D's. No R's. No Deep State. Just people , doing their jobs.

In YOUR WORLD, the entire FBI, DoJ, and IRS is out to get Republicans. That is YOUR theory, and worldview, NOT mine. And you simply don't have any evidence that fits this view.

And it's why we keep saying absurd this worldview is by pointing out: why the F would registered Republicans and Republican appointees like Comey and Mueller and Wray and Rettig go after the Republican party ONLY, and protect Hunter and Joe Biden and other Dems? It makes ZERO sense.

The rest of us? We just think they're doing their jobs, and that's the end of it. It's why no one here is whining about wasting 5 years to go after Hunter for some boilerplate IRS tax evasion. More power to the IRS.

And again.......I'm ready to walk from this round and round when you are, so.... don't come back and tell me I'm pestering you.
Again. I've said the problem is the few who can't put their politicial biases aside & do their job, like the Dem IRS Agent whistleblower did his.

Comey clearly overstepped the boundaries of his job & screwed over both candidates & the subsequent President.
Well...then you clearly understand it's IMPOSSIBLE that it was your claimed "political bias" that let to Comey's choices. So he's off your Deep State list forever.

I told you at the time: Hillary put Comey between a rock and a hard place, with no winning move. Political bias had NOTHING to do with Comey's choices.

And I feel the EXACT same way about each and every one of your "Deep State" conspirators.

Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:41 pm
old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:16 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:51 pm In MY world? Comey and allllll the rest of the FBI, IRS, and DoJ did their jobs just fine over the last decade. Were they perfect? F no. They weren't perfect. But they did their best. That's how MY world operates, OS. No D's. No R's. No Deep State. Just people , doing their jobs.

In YOUR WORLD, the entire FBI, DoJ, and IRS is out to get Republicans. That is YOUR theory, and worldview, NOT mine. And you simply don't have any evidence that fits this view.

And it's why we keep saying absurd this worldview is by pointing out: why the F would registered Republicans and Republican appointees like Comey and Mueller and Wray and Rettig go after the Republican party ONLY, and protect Hunter and Joe Biden and other Dems? It makes ZERO sense.

The rest of us? We just think they're doing their jobs, and that's the end of it. It's why no one here is whining about wasting 5 years to go after Hunter for some boilerplate IRS tax evasion. More power to the IRS.

And again.......I'm ready to walk from this round and round when you are, so.... don't come back and tell me I'm pestering you.
Again. I've said the problem is the few who can't put their politicial biases aside & do their job, like the Dem IRS Agent whistleblower did his.

Comey clearly overstepped the boundaries of his job & screwed over both candidates & the subsequent President.
Well...then you clearly understand it's IMPOSSIBLE that it was your claimed "political bias" that let to Comey's choices. So he's off your Deep State list forever.

I told you at the time: Hillary put Comey between a rock and a hard place, with no winning move. Political bias had NOTHING to do with Comey's choices.

And I feel the EXACT same way about each and every one of your "Deep State" conspirators.

Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
Comey was a case unto himself. Everything he touched blew up. He obviously loathed Trump & did everything be could to sabotage him & his Presidency. I don't know who Rettig is. Mueller was a senile figurehead, Weissmann ran the invetigation. I agree with everything Barr did & I'm grateful he returned to govt & took the abuse he did. I don't know about Wray, I've never commented on him.
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Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
Sorry to interrupt, but a fan, do you really believe Trump (who was going to drain the swamp) was viewed by all those people as a fellow Republican?
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tech37 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:53 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:41 pm

Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
Sorry to interrupt, but a fan, do you really believe Trump (who was going to drain the swamp) was viewed by all those people as a fellow Republican?
afan can't handle a lack of structure. Everyone has to have a R or D tattooed on their forehead & act accordingly.
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cradleandshoot wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:11 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:14 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 7:44 am
dislaxxic wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 7:28 am This entire thread...this entire topic...is a shining example of why the country, the exhausted majority, is fully rejecting the supreme hypocrisy and bankrupt governing philosophy of today's republican party. It's just a full-on travesty that this once legitimate political party has sunk into the toilet like this party has. Dead enders that continue to support ANY aspect of what is currently coming out of this party are the real problem...truly deplorable people that wouldn't have a clue if one smacked them on the arse.

Meanwhile, one of the most productive administrations in a generation is plowing forward making life better for Americans just about every day.

MAGAt republicans do NOTHING but continue to swirl down every rabbit hole in sight. :evil:

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You blaming the Republicans for taking advantage of the gift Hunter handed them on a silver platter? I'm sure your DemocRAT party would have NEVER done the same thing if the pigeon was one of trumps kids? In a strange way Hunter would have fit in nicely in the trump family. He has all the defects of character trump does and then some.
Far as we know, Trump is not a substance addict, though he does have all sorts of impulse control issues. And zero morality.

I really don't know whether it's fair to say that Hunter's "character" is bad, his behavior when deeply addicted certainly was.

I do think your obsession with him is weird....but you're definitely not alone as MAGA is wild about it...downright crazy, IMO.

The only explanation, assuming sanity at all, is the desperate attempt to distract from very serious crimes committed by an actual POTUS.
It has been proven and verified that trump is a diet coke and big Mac addict. Whether that addiction is better or worse than cocaine is probably still up for debate?
In rat studies, sugar has been shown to have more severe withdrawal than cocaine...but not Big Macs and Diet Coke (my addiction). Big Macs are darn unhealthy, and not good "brain food" but one can have one's wits, just not much impulse control.

And no, they don't drive one to behavioral depths, radically changing brain chemistry, the way alcohol and hard drugs an do for some.

I hope you at least comprehend my point re "character". Trump has no excuses at all other than perhaps sociopathy. Character. A cheater and a liar on an epic scale, infecting every part of his life.

I can't say that for Hunter re "character". Just don't know.
If he stays sober, that's a positive mark...if he makes amends, that's another. Hope he does.
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tech37 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:53 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:41 pm

Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
Sorry to interrupt, but a fan, do you really believe Trump (who was going to drain the swamp) was viewed by all those people as a fellow Republican?

No, I don't. But you're forgetting the other side of your question.

Do you really believe that not just one, but several Republicans and lifelong public servants....... would actively risk their careers and reputations to take their own party down, and install Democrats?

Only Trump supporters (not voters..you can vote for Trump, and not support him) were dumb enough to think Trump would "drain the swamp".

The people smart enough to rise to positions of DC power knew full well what was coming: Trump was a cash register, and as folks tried to tell you, he EXPLODED Federal spending in his pre-Covid years, filling everyone's pockets in DC to overflow. Remember telling me that his tax cuts "might" pay for themselves, and mocking me, telling me "how could I possibly know if that claim is a lie"?

He made the swamp 60% larger in just four years, tech. And he'll do it again if you let him.
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old salt wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:04 pm
tech37 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:53 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:41 pm

Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
Sorry to interrupt, but a fan, do you really believe Trump (who was going to drain the swamp) was viewed by all those people as a fellow Republican?
afan can't handle a lack of structure. Everyone has to have a R or D tattooed on their forehead & act accordingly.
Are you saying they aren't R's or are you saying Trump is actually not, that MAGA is not...that QAnon is not...?
They're just an occupying force that dumb Republicans have followed and voted for blindly, what "because they like their policies"?

So...They all are allies against the Deep State, which is NOT D's alone, nor liberals, not an opposition to "conservatives" or "Republicans", but rather it's ahhh yes "elites", both R and D, who run the world, one child blood drinker at a time...?

Man, the conspiracy is convoluted...
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:12 pm
tech37 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:53 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:41 pm

Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
Sorry to interrupt, but a fan, do you really believe Trump (who was going to drain the swamp) was viewed by all those people as a fellow Republican?

No, I don't. But you're forgetting the other side of your question.

Do you really believe that not just one, but several Republicans and lifelong public servants....... would actively risk their careers and reputations to take their own party down, and install Democrats?

Only Trump supporters (not voters..you can vote for Trump, and not support him) were dumb enough to think Trump would "drain the swamp".

The people smart enough to rise to positions of DC power knew full well what was coming: Trump was a cash register, and as folks tried to tell you, he EXPLODED Federal spending in his pre-Covid years, filling everyone's pockets in DC to overflow. Remember telling me that his tax cuts "might" pay for themselves, and mocking me, telling me "how could I possibly know if that claim is a lie"?

He made the swamp 60% larger in just four years, tech. And he'll do it again if you let him.
Just follow the money. That these conspiracy lovers can't figure that out... :roll:
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MDlaxfan76 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:09 pm I can't say that for Hunter re "character". Just don't know.
If he stays sober, that's a positive mark...if he makes amends, that's another. Hope he does.
I found Hunter's text to his daughter about having to support the family for 30 years, & giving half of everything he earns to Pop -- kind of sad.
Maybe some family members need to make amends to him.
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a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:12 pm
tech37 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:53 pm
a fan wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:41 pm

Your theory is that your Deep State....which is led by Republicans (Comey, Rettig, Mueller, Barr, Wray), soup to nuts.......has gone haywire, and is politically biased against Republicans?

This. makes. no. sense.
Sorry to interrupt, but a fan, do you really believe Trump (who was going to drain the swamp) was viewed by all those people as a fellow Republican?

No, I don't. But you're forgetting the other side of your question.

Do you really believe that not just one, but several Republicans and lifelong public servants....... would actively risk their careers and reputations to take their own party down, and install Democrats?

Only Trump supporters (not voters..you can vote for Trump, and not support him) were dumb enough to think Trump would "drain the swamp".

The people smart enough to rise to positions of DC power knew full well what was coming: Trump was a cash register, and as folks tried to tell you, he EXPLODED Federal spending in his pre-Covid years, filling everyone's pockets in DC to overflow. Remember telling me that his tax cuts "might" pay for themselves, and mocking me, telling me "how could I possibly know if that claim is a lie"?

He made the swamp 60% larger in just four years, tech. And he'll do it again if you let him.
Remember this a fan?

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

Everything else you're referring to is irrelevant to my original post.
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